Westbank Anglers http://www.westbank.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:06:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Walt is Skiing http://www.westbank.com/2012/02/walt-is-skiing/ http://www.westbank.com/2012/02/walt-is-skiing/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:06:04 +0000 Walt Moore http://www.westbank.com/?p=1835 The mountain is in great shape, I’m enjoying showing people around.  Time to start thinking about fishing!

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]]> http://www.westbank.com/2012/02/john-gendall-in-n-z/feed/ 0 The new and improved www.westbank.com http://www.westbank.com/2012/02/the-new-and-improved-www-westbank-com/ http://www.westbank.com/2012/02/the-new-and-improved-www-westbank-com/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:57:36 +0000 Baker Salsbury http://www.westbank.com/?p=1812 We are happy to launch our new and updated website!   This new site is designed to be more user friendly and allow us to provide you with more information on current fishing conditions in the Jackson Hole area.  As you browse the site you will notice ‘Area Rivers’ information that highlights the rivers in our immediate area where we offer guided fly fishing trips.  This box, ‘recent news and blogs,’ gives us a forum to bring you news and events happening at Westbank Anglers as well as latest product reviews and any other fishing related news.  If you click the headline ‘Recent news and blog,’ you will be taken to all past posts in the archive.  As you scroll down, you will see ‘recent fishing reports,’ check these out for the latest fishing conditions provided by our guides as well as the shop staff.  Hopefully you can find yourself featured in the ‘catch of the day’ box one day with a big cutty and an even bigger smile!  At the bottom of the home page, you will find our ‘guide news’ section.  These are posts by the guides, sharing their fishing experiences and client pictures of the great times had by all.  Please note the ‘Meet our Guides’ drop down on the top navigation bar under ‘guided trips.’  Here you can get to know our guides and see what drives them.  As with all websites, we are consistently working to improve the site.  Any and all suggestions or thoughts to improve the site are welcomed.  Please comment on any posts, share posts with your firends via the Facebook share button and as always, call us to talk fishing – it is what we do!  We look forward to helping with your fly fishing needs.

Baker Salsbury

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I would like to thank everyone who attended one of my presentations of fishing the Jackson, WY area. Made it another year without a single heckler! There were great turnouts, especially on Sunday, lots of enthusiasm about visiting the area and I was pleased with the quality of questions that were asked. Remember, please give me a call so we can help make your trip to the area as memorable as possible.

 

The amount of new tying materials at the show was almost staggering this year, along with the talent using them. I came back with a few new ideas that should slay some trouts on the Snake. As I like to say, Snake River Cutties will eat any fly, but they eat mine more. Ha! We will see, still alot of Winter to go, how the experimentation goes, but I think a few new patterns will make it in to my fly boxes for the upcoming season.

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When I get back to Jackson, and the shop, I will be starting to add the new products of 2012 to the website, as well as reviews from some of our guides. While working in the Scott Fly Rod booth, I was suprised at the number of anglers who not only have not fished these rods, but really have never heard much about them. We were able to get them casting a rod after the wiggle test and they came back impressed with the lineup that Scott is offering. The A4, new for 2012, was a hit and at $375 it is going to be top selling rod for this year. They will definitely be in my boat if you would like to try one on your trip out here. It was disappointing that a few of the other major rod manufacturers were not present at the show – I guess they do not feel they need to meet thier customers, or just have nothing new to show you.

 

If you get a chance to visit one of the remaining Fly Fishing Shows around the country, do yourself a favor a check it out. www.flyfishingshow.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

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